Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl